Chapter 539: Forbidding the Eunuch's Legacy

However, Ben Gongzi is not those ancient feudal and superstitious emperors, and he really can't use it for a special work group like eunuchs. I don't really know the origin of eunuchs, but I know very well the influence of the eunuch group.

Chinese eunuchs have existed since the Yin Dynasty. The oracle bone inscription has the word "" (which is really untypable), indicating that the ****** is cut off. "Qiang" is a minority in the west of the Yin Dynasty. This oracle bone inscription is about the king of Wuding of the Yin Dynasty castrated the captured Qiang people and became eunuchs to sacrifice to the gods. This oracle bone inscription may be the earliest record of eunuchs in the world so far.

In ancient China, castration had a lot to do with palace punishment. Later generations generally believed that palace punishment had appeared at least before Xia Yu, and its original role was to punish improper sexual relations between men and women, that is, "women who are obscene are not allowed to leave the palace; The husband is promiscuous, and he cuts his power. ”

"Fu Shengshu" cloud: "If a man or a woman does not have a righteous relationship, his criminal officer." From this, it can be deduced that the palace punishment is after the emergence of monogamy, otherwise, there will be no punishment for the improper **** relationship between men and women. However, under the brutal persecution of slave owners and the feudal ruling class, the scope of palace punishment was expanded, and it became a harsh method of indiscriminate punishment and oppression of the people.

It is difficult to find out when this expansion began, but by the time of King Mu of Zhou, it was stipulated that "five hundred palace sins" (2) had been established. In the "Zhou Li", eunuchs are called eunuchs, temples, and erections. During the Zhou Dynasty, men who were punished by the palace were called "temple people". "Temple" is composed of the words "Shi" and "Inch", "Tu" is the pictogram of male genitalia, and the "Shiren" in the history books is a man; And "inch" is like holding a knife in one hand. "Shi" and "inch" are combined to cut off the **** with a knife.

The eunuch system in the pre-Qin period originated in the pre-Qin period, and there are records about eunuchs in the Book of Songs, Zhou Li, and the Book of Rites. The Zhou Dynasty and the vassal states mostly set up eunuchs. The eunuch Chang Yu of the Qin State was favored by the Queen Mother, and her power was prominent, and she was named the Marquis of Changxin. Eunuchs were generally served by people of humble stature. The source of this was either filled by the sinners who were sentenced to the palace punishment, or it was chosen from among the young children of the common people. After the Qin and Han dynasties, the eunuch system became more detailed, and eunuchs, as a special political force, had a significant impact on the political situation of many dynasties.

After Qin Shi Huang unified the six kingdoms during the Qin and Han dynasties, the eunuchs were under the jurisdiction of the Shaofu. In the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, in view of the lessons of the death of Qin, Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, occasionally used scribes to serve as regular servants in order to curb the power of eunuchs. After Emperor Yuan, the eunuchs regained their strength. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the eunuchs served as the emperor's attendants. They conveyed edicts, took charge of documents, and influenced the emperor's hearing and hearing. At that time, the foreign relatives were powerful, and the emperor often used the eunuchs to contain the foreign relatives, often resulting in the dictatorship of the eunuch group.

By the end of the Han Dynasty, the name of the Ten Standing Servants was shocking through the ages, and in the Tang and Song dynasties, the eunuchs were managed by the Inner Servant Province, the Imperial Court, the Palace Bureau, the Xi Official Bureau, the Internal Servant Bureau, and the Inner Government Bureau. He is in charge of the palace's books, guards, sick and funeral, warehouse supply and other matters. The directors of each bureau are called orders or cheng. During the reign of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, the restrictions on eunuchs were stricter, stipulating that the highest official rank of eunuchs in the province of Inner Service was three ranks, and the amount was also limited.

After Taizong's death, the system gradually relaxed. During the reign of Zhongzong, the total number of eunuchs increased to 3,000, and as many as 1,000 people were awarded more than seven grades, while during the reign of Xuanzong, there were many eunuchs and indiscriminate, and only those with four or five grades were more than 1,000. There are many people who have awarded the rank of general of the left (right) prison gate of the third rank. After the Anshi Rebellion, the eunuchs swelled, and some even became kings and ranked as the third duke.

Some eunuchs also had access to military power. During the reign of Suzong, he set up an envoy to observe the army, and the person in charge of the eunuch was appointed as the highest military position to monitor the generals who went out on the expedition. From the beginning of the Dezong Dynasty, the eunuchs mastered the military power of the forbidden troops such as the Shence Army and the Tianwei Army. In the army, important positions such as lieutenants and guards are held by eunuchs. Because the military and political power was controlled by the eunuch group, not only the civil and military officials were under them, but even the abolition of the emperor was decided by them. Seven of the nine emperors who ascended the throne during the reign from Xianzong to Zhaozong were proclaimed by eunuchs, and two were killed by them. The dictatorship of eunuchs became a major chronic disease in the middle and late Tang Dynasty. The Song Dynasty also set up an internal service province, which was supervised by eunuchs. However, the phenomenon of eunuchs interfering in politics in the Song Dynasty was not as serious as that of the dictatorship of foreign relatives.

During the Ming and Qing dynasties, Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, was strict in the management of eunuchs, stipulating that eunuchs were not allowed to read and write, lowering their official ranks, prohibiting them from concurrently serving as civil and military titles of foreign ministers, and hanging iron plaques on the palace gate, clearly indicating that they were not allowed to interfere in politics. From the beginning of the Yongle Dynasty, eunuchs were gradually reused. Eunuchs close to the emperor were often sent out to serve as overseers. In the eighteenth year of Yongle, the East Factory was set up, which was run by eunuchs, engaged in spy activities, and reported everything directly to the emperor. When Xuanzong was announced, the ancestral system of eunuchs who were not literate was changed, and an inner study hall was set up in the palace. Ling Xueguan taught the little eunuch to read. In the thirteenth year of Chenghua, a west factory was set up outside the east factory, and the eunuch was appointed as the commander to strengthen the rule of spies. In addition, the eunuch service organization was inflated, and there were twelve eunuchs in the court, such as the celebrants, internal officials, royal officials, priests, and royal horses. The four divisions of the salary, the bell and drum, the treasure banknote, and the mixed hall and the eight bureaus such as the soldier and the silver work, collectively known as the 24 yamen, each has a full-time palm seal eunuch.

The number of eunuchs surged to tens of thousands by the end of the Ming Dynasty. During the reign of Yingzong, Wang Zhen, the eunuch in power, recruited some bureaucrats as party henchmen to form a eunuch party, which was the forerunner of the eunuch dictatorship in the Ming Dynasty. Since then, the disasters of eunuchs have arisen one after another. Wang Zhi in the Chenghua period, Liu Jin in the Wuzong period, and Wei Zhongxian in the Xizong period were all powerful eunuchs who leaned towards the government and the opposition and had prominent power. They were tyrannical and domineering, excluded dissidents, took advantage of the plunder, repeatedly set up prisons, and suppressed each other with the civilian clique, which intensified the political internal friction of the Ming Dynasty, and finally, destroyed the dynasty established by the last Han people, and brought hundreds of years of suffering to countless Chinese nations.

Therefore, at the very beginning of these civil and military generals who wanted me to become emperor, I had a difficult and difficult negotiation with them. Especially the problem of being good at eunuchs, this son strongly objected, and, even the eunuchs left by the former Sui I also did not stay, except for leaving a part of the people to guard the palace, responsible for the cleaning and repair of weekdays, all the redundant eunuchs were sent to the people, of course, in order to ensure their survival and life, the factory was established in a centralized manner for them to work in exchange for the corresponding remuneration.

The old ones were directly sent to the Huaxia Renxin Nursing Home, and they were taken care of by a special person, at least to let them spend their old age in peace, after all, Ben Gongzi had taken away their original life, at least they could not even lose the chance to survive.

A vote of Wenchen is arguing for reason there. What do you say about the seventy-two concubines in the three palaces and six courts, so many women, if there are no eunuchs to do the work, it is not a small trouble, the important thing is that it can't all be done by palace maids, right? And although the guards can enter the palace, they are all men, and if something happens, it won't turn into a scandal.

But in the end, we still fooled me. Or I was frightened by my mother-in-law's strength, and at the moment when I was fighting with the ministers for the spittle stars flying, my mother-in-law came to say a sentence without yin or yang. You can rest assured, your lord's mother-in-law is two now, and there will be two in the future, so you don't need eunuchs to live a good life.

Li Xuanba, the grass on the wall, was the first to jump out and shout for his sister, and after that, many generals who had been hit by Yaoguang's sister jumped out one after another, and expressed their agreement with Yaoguang's sister, the future queen.

In the end, Zhu Wenchen had to succumb to the pressure of the three parties, the pressure of me, the pressure of my mother-in-law, or the pressure of the generals, and agreed to prohibit the palace punishment and what to dig out the heart and nose, cut off the hands and feet and other serious criminal laws that hurt the human body and cause disabilities, the princes and nobles of the Chinese Empire and the royal family are strictly prohibited from using eunuchs, and those who violate the law will be punished as criminal offenses, and the victims will be compensated with heavy sums.

Regardless of whether the victim voluntarily cut off his ******, as long as you use it, you are committing a crime, otherwise there will always be people who pretend to be innocent.

In addition, twenty young women have been selected from the original palace maids, who are willing to continue to do this kind of work. Of course, it is paid, and if you are still willing to do it after getting married, you can continue to do it.

As for whether there are married women in the palace, this son really doesn't care. Anyway, we're not hungry ghosts, we want to take off our pants when we see a girl, and we go crazy when we see a wife. Besides, which of our two mothers-in-law is not a city and a country, if you really want to get a lot of women, then you really have to appreciate the live-action version of the palace scheming every day, and my son has to reduce his life for 30 years.

With the end of the roll call, and then I announced the beginning of the meeting, well, at this time, I naturally did not sit in the position of the emperor in the back, but in the front, and got me a position alone, which will be demolished in a while, anyway, I will climb the emperor's position and squat at that time.

Wei Zheng, who had been prepared, was the first to go out of the ranks, and then, more than 100 civil and military ministers and workers all came out of the ranks and bowed to the ground, and after Wei Zheng gave the salute, he stood up, spread out the notebook in his hand, and read it out loud on the spot.

Ben Gongzi sat down dangerously, listening solemnly to Wei Zhengyang's sprinkled, enriched and lush Chinese, the meaning is almost the same as the first and second persuasion table, anyway, it is to first tell the story of the ancient sages, when the ancient dynasty was replaced, those who eventually replaced the founding emperor how bullish the fork was, implying that this son is also the same bull fork and strong, and will definitely become a cow man who far surpasses the sages.

I hope that this son can conform to the mandate of heaven, the wishes of hundreds of officials, ordinary people, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers, become the emperor of the Chinese Empire, create a better future for the Chinese nation, and lead the Chinese nation to a more glorious moment.

When the persuasion table was recited by Wei Zheng in a loud and rich voice, the ministers bowed down again and implored this son to ascend the throne as emperor. And I, under Fang Xuanling's eyes, spread out the piece of paper very covertly and began to talk nonsense.

Naturally, it is said that this son is only shallow in learning, lack of popularity, too young and so on.

However, every shortcoming will be refuted by a minister who is as excited as a fighting, for example, I said that I am only a shallow learner, Fang Xuanling jumped out first, and I seriously think that I am too modest, thinking that I was under the name of sixteen, I was able to write calligraphy that amazed the calligraphy masters of the world, Yu Shiji and Ouyang Xun, and made poems that were sung by countless people.